Ameraucana thread for posting pictures and discussing our birds

[juliect]

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Awwww...my baby boy is growing up! I like his future flock, they're so cute

If you get some black pullets from him in the future, call me!
You definitely got the crower from my flock, it so quiet around here without Coyote. I was working in the garden the morning after you picked him up and I thought I was going deaf, then I realized that Coyote just wasn't there.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Ha! He is a crower! But it's one of those cute cartoon rooster crows. He kept escaping quarantine (apparently a 6ft fence is nothing to this guy!) and moved into the cochin house all on his own. He's definately a keeper- and I'll let ya know when we get some babies

 

[SteveH]

I'm sure not having good luck with my Ameraucanas .

I bought 3 pullets and a splash cockeral Sunday that were a little older to replace the 4 I lost last week . One was already wing clipped as it had tried to escape from its breeder , so I clipped the others and turned them in my big pen Sunday . Since the strangers weren't welcome in the coop , I built a temporary shelter of a wooden box tipped on its side with a piece of plywood as a lean-to off of it . The four newbies immediately moved in and by yesterday were foraging within a few feet of the others , but returned to the box for shelter when it rained . This morning the box was empty , one blue pullet was in the coop but still not well tolerated , and I'm missing a black pullet , a blue pullet , and the splash cockeral . No sign of them dead or alive , except one little clump of splash feathers with skin attached just outside of the pen in the area where the other little splash was last seen last week . I'm certain nothing has dug under but adding a bottom hotwire tomorrow , and already have one a few inches from the top on the outside to keep predators out . I doubt that a hawk or owl would take three , 1/2 grown birds in one day . However that's 7 B/B/S Ameraucana lost in two weeks , and [ although I have 7 left and 24 of the other breeds that are staying safe ] I assume they hopped on top of the box and then to the top of the fence and out , but I'm not buying anymore untill I'm sure there's no more losses occuring .

Edts necessary because I can't proofread worth a hoot , I always see what I meant to type LOL

 

[PepsNick]

I have one little, 10 week old Ameraucana named Zucchini. She's the smallest and gets pecked a lot, but the mama hen stands up for her! I got her from a local chicken farmer 3 weeks ago.

 

[hcammack]

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She is very pretty but not an Ameraucana. She is an EE.

Henry

 

[hcammack]

pips&peeps :

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What Mahonri said. If you get a regular wheaten girl you will get all blue wheaten offspring. The splash wheaten are lovely (especially the roos) but they are not an accepted color or something. I don't show- so not too up on all that. While you're at it- you should get some welsummer or marans girls for him and you can make olive eggers

I don't believe this is a splash wheaten cockerel. It is a splash looking easter egger.

His eyes are yellow, his beak is tinged yellow. Ameraucanas have white skin.

So, breeding this bird to a wheaten or blue wheaten ameraucana will give you more easter eggers. You don't what genes he is carrying.​

I agree.

 

[PepsNick]

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She is very pretty but not an Ameraucana. She is an EE.

Henry

Oh, I thought that an EE wasn't an actual breed. But a ameraucana/arauacana mix huh, cool

 

[SteveH]

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I'm afraid you got an EE . I met the breeder of my Ameraucanas at a swap tp pick up my birds . There was a pen of EE there and the seller was yelling " Americanas here , buy your Americanas here " like a carnival barker . He had a real pretty EE hen in that pen , blue with red neck and head , but since he lied about what he had .............

 

[PepsNick]

Well what's the major difference? The breeder I got them from said "These are ameraucanas, sometimes called easter eggers". What's the difference?

 

[halo]

There are lots of threads here explaining the difference. Heres one of the better ones:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=128806